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In contrast to many monotheistic religions, there are no absolutes in Shinto. There is no absolute right and wrong, and nobody is perfect. Shinto is an optimistic faith, as humans are thought to be fundamentally good, and evil is believed to be caused by evil spirits. Consequently, the purpose of most Shinto rituals is to keep away evil spirits by purification, prayers and offerings to the kami.

Q. Identify the tone of the author in the passage?


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Optimistic
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Assertive
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Expository
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Critical
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The correct option is C Expository
Expository, as it is intended to explain or describe something.

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In contrast to many monotheistic religions, there are no absolutes in Shinto. There is no absolute right and wrong, and nobody is perfect. Shinto is an optimistic faith, as humans are thought to be fundamentally good, and evil is believed to be caused by evil spirits. Consequently, the purpose of most Shinto rituals is to keep away evil spirits by purification, prayers and offerings to the kami.

Q. Which among the following statements are incorrect?

निम्नलिखित गद्यांश को पढ़कर उसके नीचे दिए गए प्रश्न का उत्तर दें:

कई एकेश्वरवादी धर्मों के विपरीत शिंतो धर्म में कोई पूर्ण नहीं है।कोई पूर्ण रूप से सही और गलत नहीं है, और कोई भी परिपूर्ण नहीं है।शिंतो एक आशावादी विश्वास है, क्योंकि मनुष्यों को मौलिक रूप से अच्छा माना जाता है और बुराई को बुरे स्वभाव के कारण माना जाता है।नतीजतन, अधिकांश शिंतो अनुष्ठानों का उद्देश्य बुरी आत्माओं को शुद्धि, प्रार्थना और कामी को आहुति द्वारा दूर रखना है।

Q. निम्नलिखित में कौन सा कथन गलत है?


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As Lisa Morton notes in Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances, there is not a shred of scientific evidence that proves the existence of spirits or any ability on our part or theirs, if they did exist, that we can communicate with them. Despite this, there is hardly a culture or people on earth that has not or does not believe in a spiritual life of some sort after death and that does not have some sort of ritual conducted by a “specialist” to communicate with the dead. Human beings are convinced, and have been throughout history, that there is an afterlife, that death is not the end but simply a gateway to more life, and that this afterlife has some profound effect upon those still living this life. What this pervasive belief shows is:Calling the Spirits is a nifty survey of the western world’s supposed interactions with the spirits of the dead. Necromancy, the art of summoning the spirits, has long fascinated us, and it was common in the ancient world for those with special gifts of some sort to summon the dead or the gods (good, bad, and trickster) or demi-gods, the halfway house between mortal and immortal. I suppose that Jesus would not be considered a necromancer for calling out the evil spirits of the possessed, but he clearly could get spirits to obey his commands. Although Jesus raised the dead, he did not commune with the spirits of the dead or make a claim that they had an active influence on the living. In the ancient world, people summoned the dead to get predictions about the future; presumably the dead, not imprisoned by time, are able to see the past, the present, and the future simultaneously. And they, despite being dead, are still concerned with what goes on among the living.

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